37 min ago | The Boston Globe
Mexico shifts strategy in border city violence
Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.
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Oasis of the Seas an escape from reality
You have only to read the actual schedules of the new, 220,000-ton, 6,000-passenger Oasis of the Seas to understand the revolutionary nature of the changes it will bring about.
9 hrs ago | The Toronto Star
Does evolution favour religious belief?
In the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, the archaeologists Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery have gained a remarkable insight into the origin of religion.
14 hrs ago | WCBS
Today In History November 20, 2009
Share + Nov 20, 2009 12:00 am US/Eastern Today is Friday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2009.
18 hrs ago | KWTX
Four State Police Officers Killed In Ciudad Juarez
Police in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez say four state police officers were killed and two others were injured in two separate attacks Thursday.
Trying to get ahead in the slow lane
Reporting from Tijuana - El Churrero -- the Churro Man -- sidesteps tamale carts, squeezes between bumpers and beggars, working 24 lanes of idling vehicles.
Cash strapped Mexico City pushes ahead with transit, bike improvements
Cash-strapped Mexico City is pressing ahead with new bus lines and bike lanes in 2010, buoyed by prestigious recognition for a world-class transit system that has reduced pollution in one of the globe's largest cities.
El Paso restaurant owners' kin slain in Ju rez
The violence in JuA rez claimed the life of a member of a prominent El Paso business family.
Mexico approves $244 billion budget
LTMexico Budget,0099 Mexico approves $244 billion budget Eds:APNewsNow. MEXICO CITY Mexico's leaders have approved a $244 billion budget for 2010, a slight increase from 2009 despite an economic crisis.
The Zetas: brutal narco-state kings
In his final dispatch from the drug-fuelled war along the US-Mexican border, our correspondent profiles the deadly army which rules its territory through murder and ruthless intimidation of public officials a ' with the multibillion-dollar narcotics trade as its prize Gabriela was riding the Number 20 bus into Reynosa in north-eastern Mexico when ...
Mexico anti-abortion fight moves to federal lev ...
Lawmakers in Veracruz made it Mexico's 17th state to pass legislation declaring life begins at conception, then adopted a proposal that requires Congress to consider amending the constitution to outlaw abortion.
Reporting: Mexico11 are Killed in 20 Hours. So Where's the Media?
By early Sunday, 11 more residents of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, had been slain in a 20-hour period, including the sixth police officer killed this year in growing drug cartel violence.
Famed Southwest artist Jose Cisneros dies
Artist Jose Cisneros, known for his vivid depictions of the people and culture of the Southwest, has died in El Paso.
El Paso student shot, killed in Mexico
A 7-year-old boy who attended school in El Paso has been slain in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in shootings that also left his father dead.
78-year-old arrested in 'witch' killing
Mexican police arrest Santiago Iniguez Olivares. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Santiago Iniguez Olivares accused of bludgeoning Modesta Navarro Nieves because he thought she put a spell on him Olivares had been on the run until recently, when he returned to the area because he thought murder had been forgotten Authorities arrested a woman in June 2008 in ...
Mexicana to drop Edmonton-Mexico City flight in January
Mexicana Airlines is dropping its non-stop service between Edmonton and Mexico City in January, and adding an extra flight from Calgary.
Travel Co. Defends New Orleans Mayor Nagin For Mexico Trip, Blasts Paper
The travel company president who has arranged Mayor Ray Nagin's upcoming trip to Merida Mesico which was reported in the Times Picayune has responded angrily to the TP story.
Mexico: Highest H1N1 deaths in elderly
This spring when H1N1 flu first surfaced in Mexico younger people were hit the hardest, however, the elderly had a higher risk of dying, researchers said.
Mexico's Ciudad Juarez is one of the world's most dangerous cities, plagued by battles between drug gangs.
Mexico Indian remains returned from NY for burial
Northern Mexico's Yaqui Indians buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York's American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of one of North America's last Indian massacres lay in storage for more than a century.
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